THE CHARGES OF SAMUEL HORSLEY, LL.D. F.R.S F.A.S. Late Lord Bishop of St Asaph;
delivered at his several visitations of the Dioceses of St David's, Rochester, and St Asaph. Pp. [ii]+232; demy 8vo;
name in ink on upper free endpaper, the final signature (pp. 225-232) repeated, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; nineteenth century calf boards, with double gilt rule border and gilt edges, lightly worn, with several small surface grazes, rebacked with later brown buckram spine and gilt lettered black leather title label; printed by Robert Stephen Rintoul for James Chalmers, Dundee, 1813. First edition. *Posthumously published [edited by his son, Heneage Horsley]. Samuel Horsley (1733-1806) was bishop of Rochester from 1793 and bishop of St. Asaph from 1802. He published mathematical and religious works, and edited a five volume edition of the works of Sir Isaac Newton. Horsley is remembered for a controversial disputation with Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen. (Priestley denied that early Christians had held the doctrine of the Trinity. Item #160529
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